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A mass vaccination campaign against polio in the Gaza Strip has been completed in just over two months, Israel and the UN Children’s Fund Unicef said on Wednesday. A total of around 1.1 million doses of vaccine have been administered in the embattled coastal strip, according to COGAT, the Israeli military authority for Palestinian affairs. Unicef said that 556,774 children had received two doses of vaccine each. The first round of vaccinations began on September 1 and the necessary second dose was administered from mid-October. COGAT said that the vaccination rate of more than 90% of children …

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